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Beets nudge your blood pressure down. One thing undoes it

Beets can nudge your blood pressure down. One thing in your bathroom undoes it. This is my favorite fact in all of nutrition because it is so unlikely. Beets are high in nitrate. Your body cannot do much with nitrate directly. So it absorbs it, then sends about a quarter of it back up into your saliva, where bacteria living on your tongue convert it into something your body can turn into nitric oxide, which relaxes your blood vessels. You cannot do that step. The bacteria do it. You are outsourcing a piece of your own circulation to organisms living in your mouth. Which leads to the thing that proves it. When people used a strong antiseptic mouthwash for a week, their blood pressure went up by a couple of points. It started within a day. Kill the bacteria, lose the step. The honest size of it: modest, and it shows up more reliably in a clinic reading than across a full day. I would rather give you that than oversell a vegetable. Where to get it: roasted beets, beet juice, or leafy greens. They all sit in the same high-nitrate group. And the pink urine is completely harmless. It happens to about one in eight people and says nothing about your kidneys. If you take blood pressure or heart medication, check with your clinician before adding beet juice regularly.